“We haven’t eaten them yet because we’re awaiting approval for testing in humans,” said Jayakody, before a presentation of the work on Monday at the meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago.

Cowards, eat the chemistry cookie

I remember when I was a bleeding heart liberal I had this project in college where I was thinking about how to get biofuels to be economically competitive with fossil fuels. A flawed premise, but clearly they were trying to do good in the world. One of the papers I was using was using some kind of waste sugar to fuel them. I don't think I can find the exact one but

Utilization of biodiesel-derived glycerol or xylose for increased growth and lipid production by indigenous microalgae

Is close. Much of the study was about perfecting the algae that they were using, not indigenous microalgae.

Microbes are little expert chemists and the composition of triglycerides, glucose, and amino acids are well understood. We can use, if memory serves, E. coli to synthesize insulin. We can use microbes to eat plastic.

Sounds sound to me.

We already produce enough real food to feed everyone.

Fuck it I'll eat the plastic if it means everyone can eat

Computer, yeast paste, room temperature

Yeast products made from otherwise non degradable plastic sounds pretty great, what's the issue

what would happen if the plastic-digesting microbes escaped into the world

turning plastic into something i can eat is an intriguing idea. it says proteins, fats, and flavorings too so like... tendies with honey mustard?

if you tell me i could recycle plastic and protect the environment while eating taste-alike trash food, they are gonna need to cut a hole in the side of my house and a crane to retrieve my body.

We already upgrading to macroplastics?

that's kinda neat. unfortunately recycling isn't a tech problem, it's a societal investment problem, and I don't see this moving the needle in that respect if it works.

bugs are sounding better every day

I knew this would happen the moment liberals had the "The homeless should be happy to get my leftovers" discourse.

thanks but no thanks, NASA

Gonna snack on a bag of poker chips

pee micro plastics is stored in the balls

It's bad enough we make clothes out of plastic, now they want to make food out of plastic too?

(Okay, upon reading more than the post headline, this is actually intetesting, but on the face of it, it does sound nearly as horrific as the existence of polyester.)

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Jfc

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